When January's cold appears,
A glowing pipe my spirit cheers;
And still it glads the length'ning day
'Neath February's milder sway.
When March's keener winds succeed,
What charms me like the burning weed
When April mounts the solar car,
I join him, puffing a cigar;
And May, so beautiful and bright,
Still finds the pleasing weed a-light.
To balmy zephyrs it gives zest
When June is gayest livery's drest.
Through July, Flora's offspring smile,
But still Nicotia's can beguile;
And August, when its fruits are ripe,
Matures my pleasure in a pipe.
September finds me in the garden,
Communing with a long churchwarden.
Even in the wane of dull October
I smoke my pipe and sip my "robar".
November's soaking show'rs require
The smoking pipe and blazing fire.
The darkest day in drear December's-
That's lighted by their glowering embers.
ANOM.
Came across this poem in an old book of pipe and tobacco poetry called "Pipe and Pouch, The Smokers Own Book Of Poetry".
A glowing pipe my spirit cheers;
And still it glads the length'ning day
'Neath February's milder sway.
When March's keener winds succeed,
What charms me like the burning weed
When April mounts the solar car,
I join him, puffing a cigar;
And May, so beautiful and bright,
Still finds the pleasing weed a-light.
To balmy zephyrs it gives zest
When June is gayest livery's drest.
Through July, Flora's offspring smile,
But still Nicotia's can beguile;
And August, when its fruits are ripe,
Matures my pleasure in a pipe.
September finds me in the garden,
Communing with a long churchwarden.
Even in the wane of dull October
I smoke my pipe and sip my "robar".
November's soaking show'rs require
The smoking pipe and blazing fire.
The darkest day in drear December's-
That's lighted by their glowering embers.
ANOM.
Came across this poem in an old book of pipe and tobacco poetry called "Pipe and Pouch, The Smokers Own Book Of Poetry".